REMAIN
\ɹɪmˈe͡ɪn], \ɹɪmˈeɪn], \ɹ_ɪ_m_ˈeɪ_n]\
Definitions of REMAIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
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be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"
By Princeton University
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continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
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be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
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To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
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To await; to be left to.
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That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
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The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
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That which is left; relic; remainder; - chiefly in the plural.
By Oddity Software
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To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
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To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
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To await; to be left to.
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That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
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The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
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That which is left; relic; remainder; - chiefly in the plural.
By Noah Webster.
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To stay behind when others have gone; to stay alive; endure; last; as, the memory of that day remains; be left after a part has been used, lost, etc.; as, little of his wealth remains; to be left as a possibility; as, that remains to be seen.
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The portion left; a dead body; ruins; works published after an author's death; as, literary remains.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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